Negima!? Final Thoughts (Review) After the extreme disappointment of the Negima! anime adaptation, I hoped that with the transfer of the franchise to SHAFT that maybe we’d see a reboot and a proper manga adaptation. Alas, that was not to be as it was announced that SHAFT would create Negima!?, which would be a reboot,
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Negima!? Final Thoughts (Review)
February 21st, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy 
Posted in Anime, AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers 
Tags: Negima, review, What I'm Watching 
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The Manga Guide to Databases
February 14th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy The Manga Guide to DatabasesBuy From Amazon! No Starch Press is back with a second book in the “Manga Guide” series, this time The Manga Guide to Databases. Since I have worked in the IT/IS field for years and even have some database training, this book gives me a chance to look at the subject
The Manga Guide to Statistics
December 2nd, 2008 AstroNerdBoy The Manga Guide to Statistics The Manga Guide to Statistics Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a way to combine manga and education, thus making something that takes a difficult or seemingly difficult topic and place it in a format the Japanese are quite comfortable with. This is why The Manga Guide
Sasuga Japanese Bookstore Review
January 2nd, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Sasuga Japanese Bookstore Review (Note: The store is now closed, which is unfortunate.) It has long been on my list to buy the original tankoubon volumes for Negima!, partially to make sure I have to real story (and not that Peter David stuff) and partially to practice reading Japanese. Since I had a little Christmas
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
August 22nd, 2007 AstroNerdBoy Shinobi: Heart Under Blade I’ve slowly started to increase my watching of live-action Japanese titles, especially if I hear good things about them. Such was the case with Shinobi: Heart Under Blade. Mild SPOILER Summary: Kouga Gennosuke is the grandson of Kouga Danjo, leader of the Kouga clan of shinobi. He has fallen in love
First Look: Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE DVD Vol. 1
May 11th, 2007 AstroNerdBoy Thanks to the folks at FUNimation for sending me an advanced copy of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Vol. 1!. ^_^ Content wise, the first DVD contains episodes 1-5 of the series. So this gets us to the first world of the Hanshin Republic. The subtitles do contain the Japanese honorifics as expected. Those wondering if “hime”
Posted in Anime Tags: DVD, First Look, FUNimation, review, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 2 Comments »Honey and Clover Live-Action Movie Review
March 7th, 2007 AstroNerdBoy Summary (*SPOILERS*) At a gathering at Hanamoto-sensei’s residence, students of the art college prepare for a meal. Takemoto-kun prepares some gyouza, Yamada-san prepares some other dish, and others do other things. A group of girls observe Takemoto and decide he’s dateless. Yamada sees Mayama and briefly loses herself. Mayama sees a postcard from Morita-san and
Scrapped Princess 01 (Light Novel)
March 7th, 2007 AstroNerdBoy Scrapped Princess 01 (Light Novel) I put off reading TokyoPop’s adaptation of the popular Japanese novel series Scrapped Princess. TokyoPop told me (and others) that 1) there’d be no honorific usage in the novels and 2) the novels would be made to appeal to a wider audience beyond fans of the anime, and would be
